i like da move by @Absyrd i mean hell why not, id jump at the oportunity. just got to be casreful dealing with illz cause he always under suspicion, but i dont know him personally. it could go several different ways from a kinda dark horse rejuvenated start or a total train wreck if both parties clash, but hopefully it at least is given a chance for QP sake. Im not sure if this means QP free or is transfiring to the general population but change is good when ur locked up/out. im trying to think of matchups especially GT battlers for QP. i dunno if any old GT heads wanna fuck with this but who needs them i guess. kotd shunned qp so illz did the best move he ever has tbh. kotd just will be ok but not setting up qp vs chilla might be a mistake even if chilla is asking double. QP a different man now hes ready to make million view battles not just battle in them. #4 battle setter upper in da world. We almost free just gottakeep the appeal active. url and kotd,, mad illz and Absyrd lookin down from dat balloon right now. #murdergang #doSomethingFooL

Some of the analogies in this thread are pretty terrible. I expected better from battle rap fans.

This is more like a head chef creating a dish, for the restaurant next door to give away free, and the chef hopes customers come to his restaurant next time.

Except, you can expect people to want to try different restaurants, but thats not necessarily true for YouTube behavior. Content creators already have a hurdle in getting people to subscribe or like videos on their own channel, but A&B is now hoping people will follow a link in the description or in an annotation to their channel and subscribe.

I don't think this is as solid of a plan as GTN or A&B seem to think. First of all, why wouldn't Illz monetize the video? Someone should. Why would A&B want to increase the barrier of adding subscribers to their channel? Why would A&B give their best content to another channel, when they are trying to re-brand/grow again from scratch?

Lastly, and this is the real kicker for me, is that YouTube partners and actual "networks" have so much more capabilities to do this exact thing, as far as the level of granularity to monetize videos across channels and doing cross promo like they think they are achieving. It kills me that someone is convinced that uploading a video on another channel, putting those videos in a playlist and basically begging viewers to go check out another channel is the best way to accomplish what they want.

First of all most of those 100k subs are many years old, may not use that account anymore or give a fuck about rap battles.

Secondly, it's already been confirmed that mad bought twitter followers, so most of that 37k "followers" are fake accounts.

look at the numbers of recent gtn releases for reference.

that being said, would b dope to see grindtime come back and actually put out dope battles...but hooking up with losers like absyrd and crackheads like QP aint gonna make it work lolll

I love when people make serious posts like this and don't get the obvious sarcasm. Like, over the top obvious. And then this guy calling other people 'idiots' makes it even greater, because he's the biggest fucking idiot possible without even realizing it

I love when people make serious posts like this and don't get the obvious sarcasm. Like, over the top obvious. And then this guy calling other people 'idiots' makes it even greater, because he's the biggest fucking idiot possible without even realizing it

Some of the analogies in this thread are pretty terrible. I expected better from battle rap fans.

This is more like a head chef creating a dish, for the restaurant next door to give away free, and the chef hopes customers come to his restaurant next time.

Except, you can expect people to want to try different restaurants, but thats not necessarily true for YouTube behavior. Content creators already have a hurdle in getting people to subscribe or like videos on their own channel, but A&B is now hoping people will follow a link in the description or in an annotation to their channel and subscribe.

I don't think this is as solid of a plan as GTN or A&B seem to think. First of all, why wouldn't Illz monetize the video? Someone should. Why would A&B want to increase the barrier of adding subscribers to their channel? Why would A&B give their best content to another channel, when they are trying to re-brand/grow again from scratch?

Lastly, and this is the real kicker for me, is that YouTube partners and actual "networks" have so much more capabilities to do this exact thing, as far as the level of granularity to monetize videos across channels and doing cross promo like they think they are achieving. It kills me that someone is convinced that uploading a video on another channel, putting those videos in a playlist and basically begging viewers to go check out another channel is the best way to accomplish what they want.

ok we only plan to drop 1-3 battles from each event 1 of them 3 being a headliner we can drop tryouts if we want ya know but i plan to drop all our Big matchs via A&B channel again this is something that will allow a little more following while we expand to the south in march and the other states out here some EC shit too if u seen we posted a qp match on our channel and a remyd one. We have 2 day event with 25 battles a great day 2 and hella events planed GTN is only posting videos we ask them too the hole making money off the views is dope and we will make a plan for there channel for our feb event

as well drop a few matchs but pretty much everything else is our channel I GAVE them Diz vs caustic philly vs pete etc. i had a choice in it all and i wont put my 100% into someone elses shit ever again but i dont mind to work and make peice of pie for everyone. I am only Absyrd from A&B i do not have a GTN title as QP and Knox are in charge of all of that

shouts i didnt know kats would even care to follow or make posts

Edit: our Youtube although isnt huge has a small following from wat battles i did post on there gets around 25 subs a day anit much but over 2 year break it just keeps adding up

You end, telling us your channel grows daily and its adding up. So there is even less incentive to drop your content on another channel?

You're basically offering to do their job by producing content for their channel, and the only payment back is the promise that they'll urge people to visit your channel without their subscribers having any real incentive to do that unless they just want something to browse. Because afterall, the video they were interested in watching in the first place is already playing on their device, you're hoping they go an extra mile to find your channel.

1-3 battles and one being a headline.. maybe I'm forcing the definition of "headline", but a two day event has what... 2 headline matches? Thats %50 of the draw of your event going to another channel for the sake of....it being on their channel.

If you really think this cross-promo with GTN, who is not going to monetize the videos anyway, is a good idea with all the best intentions from both sides, then offer to send them trailers to post on their channel with a link to your channel to see the full video... I wonder if Illz would still be on board when the plan changes for you not to pad his channel's catalog of actual battles.

You end, telling us your channel grows daily and its adding up. So there is even less incentive to drop your content on another channel?

You're basically offering to do their job by producing content for their channel, and the only payment back is the promise that they'll urge people to visit your channel without their subscribers having any real incentive to do that unless they just want something to browse. Because afterall, the video they were interested in watching in the first place is already playing on their device, you're hoping they go an extra mile to find your channel.

1-3 battles and one being a headline.. maybe I'm forcing the definition of "headline", but a two day event has what... 2 headline matches? Thats %50 of the draw of your event going to another channel for the sake of....it being on their channel.

If you really think this cross-promo with GTN, who is not going to monetize the videos anyway, is a good idea with all the best intentions from both sides, then offer to send them trailers to post on their channel with a link to your channel to see the full video... I wonder if Illz would still be on board when the plan changes for you not to pad his channel's catalog of actual battles.

idk i can count atleast 10 well known names like qp on our feb card. and our March one haha 1-3 battles dont hurt me haha we have plans for stuff like promo videos

i can def have love for your posts tho cause helps me think about shit in a different persons mind